From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V3 #57 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Friday, 11 June 1993 Volume 03 : Number 057 In this issue: New Sweetman book on Aurora Re: Powered vertical landings Crickmore's SR-71 Book Re: New Books See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: George Allegrezza 10-Jun-1993 0706 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 07:11:52 EDT Subject: New Sweetman book on Aurora This may be old news to the group, as I've been out of touch for a bit, but FWIW . . . I just got the Zenith Aviation Books catalog, and they're announcing the new Bill Sweetman book on Aurora, titled "Aurora," amazingly enough. 60 illustrations, all the "true facts", etc. for only $9.95, available after July 15. I'll get the ISBN and cat. no. info tomorrow. (Left the cat. home today.) George George Allegrezza | "She doesn't know you're not normal." Digital Equipment Corporation | -- my wife, about our 20-month-old Littleton MA USA | daughter allegrezza@tnpubs.enet.dec.com | ------------------------------ From: lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 10:21:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Powered vertical landings In your message dated: Wed, 09 Jun 93 18:25:42 EDT you write: >Tom Ambrose writes: >> ... >>I know some people that are working on the (DC-X) program. We were >>discussing the landing method. I think it would be much cheaper (and easier) > >>to just deploy a parachute for the final decent. > >However, for most bodies in the solar system, you don't have an atmosphere. True, if you include asteroids. >Powered vertical landings will be essential for flights that don't end on Eart >h. Wrong. Landings on Venus and Mars (and maybe Titan) could use parachutes, as could "landings" on the outer planets (but I doubt you'd want to try to "land" on one). Cheers, - --Lee ________________________________________________________________________________ R. Lee Hawkins lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu Department of Astronomy lhawkins@lucy.wellesley.edu Whitin Observatory Wellesley College Ph. 617-283-2708 Wellesley, MA 02181 FAX 617-283-3667 ________________________________________________________________________________ >============================================================================== >== >"Indiana" Joe Claffey = Disclaimer: All non-quoted opinions >CLAFFEY_JOR@CCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU = expressed are my own, and anyone else >Quote: "Make no small plans." = trying to take credit for them is in > - Daniel Burnham = big trouble! >============================================================================== >== ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 12:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Crickmore's SR-71 Book My carpool-mate went to the Blackbird Reunion last weekend and picked up a copy of Crickmore's book, "Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Mission Exposed" I asked her to do this solely on the recommendations of members of this list. Those of you who recommend it are correct--it's a great book. Thank you for the tip. There were two advantages of having her buy it there; 1. no 8.5 percent sales tax 2. a personalized inscription. Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com ------------------------------ From: larry@ichips.intel.com Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 10:37:44 -0700 Subject: Re: New Books George Allegrezza writes: >I just got the Zenith Aviation Books catalog, and they're announcing the new >Bill Sweetman book on Aurora, titled "Aurora," amazingly enough. 60 >illustrations, all the "true facts", etc. for only $9.95, available after July >15. > >I'll get the ISBN and cat. no. info tomorrow. (Left the cat. home today.) No problem George, I happen to have it with me today. It's 118921AP. $9.95. Available 7/15/93 The Zenith hype follows: "Sweetman, is there or isn't there? For years rumors have circulated that the Pentagon was operating a supersecret hypersonic replacement for the SR-71. Bill Sweetman traces the rumors and shreds of evidence to piece together the most detailed account of the Aurora project possible, using 60 photos and sketches based on the best educated guesses and conceptual drawings available. Informed facts that all point to the existence of a Mach 5 super spyplane in the US arsenal. In the MIL-TECH series. Sftbnd., 7.5" X 9.25", 96 pgs, 60 b+w ill." Mary Shafer writes: >My carpool-mate went to the Blackbird Reunion last weekend and picked up a >copy of Crickmore's book, "Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Mission Exposed" I >asked her to do this solely on the recommendations of members of this list. > >Those of you who recommend it are correct--it's a great book. Thank you >for the tip. > That book is also offered by Zenith. The Zenith hype follows: "Crickmore. Six generals, more than 70 SR-71 crew members, and each of the remaining Operation Black Shield pilots tell their unique stories. More than 20 years of top-secret operations crisscrossing the skies over N. Vietnam, Laos, N. Korea, Cuba, Libya, Iran, and other hot-spots around the world. Unique and exclusive operational missions tracking Soviet nuclear subs in the Arctic and Baltic Seas, classified missions out of RAF Mildenhal and Beale AFBs, never before published CIA and USAF missions, and intimate details of the ultimate Mach-3 surveillance aircraft - the SR-71. Hdbd, 7.75" X 10.5", 200 b+w, 16 color ill." 118777AE. $29.95 Zenith: 1-800-826-6600 L.S. ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V3 #57 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". 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